2016 Potential College Football Playoff(based off my proposals)

2014 intro
Flaws on current system 2014
Take on Autobids and Conf Champs Games
Preferred 16 team playoff plan        Alternate 8 team playoff plan

I know that not many people will read or comment but I do this every year, mostly for my self. It's really fun to speculate on how things would be if we had a better playoff system in college football. College Football is one of my favorite sports and having a legitimate playoff would enhance it greatly.

As for the actual current playoff, the committee picked a safe top 4, because they did not want to anger Ohio State(11-1, B10), a large influential blue blood traditional powerhouse. Alabama(13-0, SEC champion), Washington(12-1, PAC-12 champion) and Clemson(12-1, ACC champion) deserved their spots. But Penn State(11-2, B10 champion) was more deserving of a spot than Ohio State, in my opinion. They beat Ohio State and won Ohio State's conference. Head to head and conference championships were two of the committee's criteria. Ohio State had a slightly better record and slightly more difficult schedule but I don't think that outweighs Penn State's accomplishments. Nevertheless, 3 out of 4 ain't bad, so I'll stop complaining. Besides, Ohio State is an excellent team. All this just shows that college football over-relies on opinion and subjectivity in determining who gets the national champion. In my plan, the committee's power is greatly reduced and subjectivity doesn't matter as much. The best teams get their chance at the title. No 2014 TCU or 2016 PSU to wonder about.

One last thing, I'm really tired of the bad arguments used against expanded playoff. The playoff does not diminish the regular season in any way. If anything, more teams will have something serious to play for throughout the season. And with automatic bids, conference championships will actually mean something. The regular season would be enhanced. Remember, there are 128 FBS teams and only 4 get a chance at the title. Expanding it to 8 or 16, does not mean making the playoff becomes easy. Winning a conference title in any FBS conference or being a top 15 team, is not easy at all. And for you logistics people, remember that the FCS, D-II and D-III all have 16+ team playoffs already. So it wouldn't be a particularly difficult transition for FBS. If you want to see more of my responses to critics, check out some of my other posts. Too many people are easily manipulated by ESPN and other media(who have an incentive to keep the status quo).

Enough of that, here we go:
16 team playoff plan(this one):
Based on 2016 season.Automatic bids:Alabama(SEC), Clemson(ACC), Penn State (B10), Oklahoma(B12), Washington(P12), Temple(AAC), Appalachian State(Sun Belt, co champs with Arkansas State but tie breaker of overall record), San Diego State(Mtn West),Western Kentucky(C-USA), Western Michigan(MAC)

At-large bids(trying to think like committee):Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, USC, Colorado, Louisville

Before I talk snubs, I need to say this. Wouldn't it be great to see deserving teams like Penn State, USC and Michigan get a shot at it all? It would really would be awesome. Subjectivity has it's place and it's not for the very top playoff teams but the last team(s) in.

Snubs: Florida State(losing that decisively to Louisville really cost them), Oklahoma State(lack of quality wins other than maybe West Virginia), West Virginia(Nice record, no quality wins and got dominated by the two quality teams they played)

Seedings/first round matchups(Trying to seed/rank them like a committee would):
1. Alabama vs. 16. San Diego State
2. Clemson vs. 15. Appalachian State
3. Ohio State vs. 14. Western Kentucky
4. Washington vs. 13. Temple
5. Penn State vs. 12. Western Michigan
6. Michigan vs. 11. Louisville
7. Oklahoma vs. 10. Colorado
8. Wisconsin vs. 9. USC

My comments: This would intriguing playoff. Sure, Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State would be heavily favored in their first round games. But you never know, that's what a real playoff brings; the possibility of the upset. Temple and WMU would be popular upset picks. And those last three games are just incredible matchups. Lamar Jackson(Louisville) vs. Michigan's great defense. The contrast of USC and Wisconsin. The Oklahoma-Colorado shootout. It would be incredible.

8 team playoff plan(this one):

Based on 2016 season.

Automatic bids:
Alabama(SEC), Clemson(ACC), Penn State(B10), Oklahoma(B12), Washington(P12), Western Michigan(best of group of 5)
At-large bids(trying to think like committee): Ohio State, Michigan

Snubs: None actually. Only 3 loss teams from here.

Seedings/first round matchups(Trying to seed/rank them like a committee would):
1. Alabama vs. 8. Western Michigan
2. Clemson vs. 7. Oklahoma
3. Ohio State vs. 6. Michigan (REMATCH!)
4. Washington vs. 5. Penn State

My comments: Generally speaking, I prefer the 16 team plan but for this year 8 works better. There's practically no bubble. The last two unbeaten teams match up right away. Western Michigan has gotten no respect all season long. What a better chance to get respect than against Alabama! Clemson Oklahoma is a rematch from last year's(real life) playoff. And even the biggest expansion haters can't deny how awesome it would be to have Michigan and Ohio State rematch after the previous controversial game. I hate both teams(loser Illinois fan) and think it's awesome. Washington- Penn State is a good game between dark horse contenders. I really like this one.

Hopefully, some day greedy executives can realize that they can get even richer and improve the sport if they expand the playoff. Maybe someone of importance can miraculously come across this obscure blog and be enlightened to the truth.(That sounded really arrogant).